Flashback 10 years.
I along with my friends was waiting expectedly outside the cinema hall for our 9 pm show to commence. The movie had already been a talking point. I as an aping Aamir Khan fan was drooling with the prospect of watching another classic. Finally, the moment arrived and silver screen lit.
A svelte, even if not lean, Aamir Khan as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ajay Singh Rathore. Unpalatable ... The movie was so tightly integrated and so riveting that this thing became irrelevant in the end. But somewhere it kept on ringing. Not that he was bad, but on first instance, he did look incongruous.
In fact, even his leading lady (Sonali Bendre) in the movie was surprised, when he told her that he was an ACP. She had nonchalantly said, “Agar tum ACP ho to, main Patiala ki rani” (If you are an ACP, then I am the queen of Patiala).
Anyway, this didn’t stop the movie becoming a superhit and classic in its own. And I was indeed bragging about it after the show was over.
On this weekend, I watched it again. Ah! again the brilliance of the movie was brought forth. But again his unfitness too was scratched. I wondered about the efficacy of physique then.
If he had worked out a six-pack like Ghajini’s then, the cast would have looked more real and forever.
He has wished to act in a sequel of Sarfarosh and Andaaz Apna Apna. If the former does come out, I am sure he will don a totally Herculean look this time around. ACP Rathore will be immortal then.
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